shadorne
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| Question concerning db sensitivity Adman227, For some reason I would have thought this issue was less subjective than others Everything in audio is highly subjective, which is why I took the time to qualify my reply with a description of a couple of the general measurable issues/co... | |
| Question concerning db sensitivity John,Ok I understand this has simply been your experience. I misread your statement as a fact or well known "truth".Sorry... | |
| using the Radio shack SPL meter 91-92db SPL is the peak level you listened to unless you had the meter set to "average" in which case this was the average peak level (and actual peaks may have been higher).Rock concert levels typically run up to 105 db SPL average (although this... | |
| Best outdoor speaker I have been happy with my two sets of outdoor B&W's - for details see my virtual systems. I would never claim that these are the "best" but they do the job and they do it well. | |
| Question concerning db sensitivity There is no truth to this. Speaker sensitivity has no more to do with sound quality than amplifier power, which is zilch. John,Your statement is as one sided as it is inaccurate. How can you possibly say that speaker sensitivity and amplifier pow... | |
| Question concerning db sensitivity Someone recently told me that in their experience, in general, that the higher the db sensitivity of a given speaker, the more you sacrifice in terms of sound. In other words, lower db rated speakers [ 86-88 ] typically sound better. Any thoughts... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Tvad,I don't question your observation but it begs the question why shouldn't a brand new CD play properly from the get go?Did you try other CDR's - like the clear silver ones that look more like regular CD's ( at least superficially) | |
| Vinyl Outselling CD Is this true? If it is it is fantastic news. There is nothing like competition to improve quality and pop CD quality has been lousy lately...1980's pop Vinyl sounds a lot better than much of the compressed pop CD's of today! | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Eldartford,Actually I just answered my own question on the last post. So I thought I would share it.Cross-Interleaved Reed Solomon Coding It states INTERPOLATION: If a major error occurs and a sample cannot be perfectly reconstructed by the error ... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Eldartford, 04-18-07: EldartfordI really question the need to clean CDs. I agree with you. However my personal experience with CD rot did leave my faith in the robustness of CD's slightly shaken. (CD rot is pitting damage occuring on the silver CD... | |
| Turntable Pre-Echo Sound....? are you sure that it continues throught the record or is it lmited to certain areas on the LP? Yes it must do. It is a physical limitation of the way LP's are cut. LP = Long Play = some compromises are naturally required to get that extra music c... | |
| Break in period Paul,My point was that audio engineers design things to sound consistent and significant audible changes ascribed to lengthy burn-ins (after months of listening) is not very desirable. If I understand you and others, you are saying that this has n... | |
| How is more than 16 bits better for CD? but, to answer the original question, if it's just a 24 bit DAC, and it does not upsample the data, then the last 8 bits will just be filled in with zeroes, as Aball mentioned in the first reply. Exactly. Thanks to Jason for clarifying completely... | |
| Can you correct nulls with acoustic treatments. Jim,The Maggies should still respond to the same physics in the bass as Genelec describes, however, they radiate front and back in ALL frequencies (not just the LF below 500 Hz) and, therefore it will be recommended to have them as far out as poss... | |
| low vs high gain Whatever works best with the preamp (allows you to play softly and loudly). |